Pakistan accepts Indian aid offer of $5 mn
After dithering for a week, Pakistan today accepted India's offer of $5 million in aid for flood relief in the country and appreciated its "very positive" gesture.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who is in New York to attend a special meeting of the United Nations on flood situation in his country, stated this a day after the US said politics should have no role in disaster response and expected Islamabad to accept the Indian aid offer.
While pushing for more international aid for relief and rehabilitation efforts, Pakistan has been dilly-dallying on accepting the aid offered by India last Friday.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani yesterday and offered more assistance in handling flood relief.